The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's steam storeship Industry sailed on Friday from Woolwich, laden with victualling stores and iron buoys for moorings in the South Atlantic stations. She also took a few head of oxen from the south of France for experimental breeding purposes in the Isle of Ascension. Daring the last few days a large supply of the 5 inch and 6 inch iron armour plates have been sent in to Chatham dockyard from the Millwall Ironworks and the establishment of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, for the Lord Warden and the Bellerophon, ironcased frigates, building in the dockyard. In anticipation of the heavy demand which will bo made on the factory department of the dockyard when the works connected with the Bellerophon are fairly in hand, a number of addi tional mechanics will shortly be entered at the yard, and several new machines of enormous power are now in course of Erection for the preparation of armour plates. The Talia, Turkish Imperial yacht, lying ;at 'Woolwich, has been open for public inspection dur ing the past three days, and has been visited during that time by about 12,000 persons. It was calculated that about half that number were admitted on board on Friday. The Arsenal pier was thronged curing the whole of the day, and large numbers failed in obtaining admission. She is now closed to the pub lie, in order to complete the arrangements for her departure for Constantinople, appointed for to-day. The Talia was on Thursday visited by Rear-Ad miral Eden and the Hon. J. R. Drummond, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Their Lordships subsequently repaired to the dockyard, and officially inspected the shipbuilding departments, visiting the plate -bending sheds, in which the armour casing is being prepared for Mr. Reed's corvette Favourite, and also the Enterprise awl Pallas, and the various works in progress. An Admiralty order had been previously received notifying that the annual establishment of the yard should be dis charged, in conformity with regulations recently issued. Accordingly about 400 mechanics and labourers, coming under the denomination of hired men, assembled in the open space fronting the official quarters, and were informed viva voce by Mr, Turner, the master shipwright, that, having ful filled the terms of their engagement up to that period, he was ordered to give each man his dis missal from the service. The whole of the men were forthwith re-engaged and were again entered as hired men. These regulations are put into effect in order to relieve the Government of the onus of superannuation. This step has called forth some severe animadversions, as many of the men had been in the service upwards of a quarter of a cen tury, and hoped shortly to be entered on the per manent establishment, by which the whole of their time would have been taken into consideration for retirement. Their Lordships, having inspected the paddlewheel sloop Hecate, pronounced her unfit for further service. Her ironwork is eaten with rust and her timbers are quite rotten. She is consequently to be taken to pieces. On Saturday Rear-Admiral S. Robinson, the Con troller of the Navy, visited Chatham dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the progress made in the way of fitting the various vessels building and pre paring for sea at that establishment. After transact ing business at the office of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., the superintendent of the establishment, the Controller directed his attention to the Bombay, 67, now in dry dock, where she has been several months fitting for an Admiral's flag. Most of the work on board is now completed, and in about a fortnight she will be ready to leave the dock. The Admiralty have di rected her condensers to be strengthened by means of tension bolts, which will be fixed athwart ship, and this work will be executed by Messrs. Hum phreys, Tennant, and Co., the makers of the engines. After inspecting the Cadmus, 22, 400 horse-power, which is undergoing some heavy repairs in the ad joining dock, the Controller visited the east end of the yard, where the ironclad frigate Lord Warden is now being put in frame, and afterwards embarked on board the City of Rochester steamer and proceeded dow a the harbour to the Achilles iron frigate, which is being brought forward for sea with as much de spatch as the resources of the dockyard will permit. Her Majesty's screw frigate Ariadne, 26, 3,214 tons, 800 horse-power, Capt. E. W. Vansittart, was put out of commission and the crew paid off in the Medway on Saturday under the superintendence of Capt. C. Wise, naval aide-de-camp to the Queen. The Ariadne has been upwards of four years in com mission, and has been attached principally to the North America and West India squadrons, and for some time was engaged in operations on the Mexi can coast. Notwithstanding the length of time she was in commission, she has lost but few of her crew from death or sickness, and most of the officers who joined the ship at the time she was commissioned re turn in her. Three of the crew have been recom mended to the Admiralty for medals and the accom panying gratuities for long service and exemplary conduct. The crew were paid off in a most orderly and expeditions manner, and nearly the whole of them immediately left by train to spend their six weeks' ,holiday with their friends. The Ariadne goes into the fourth division of the Chatham Steam Reserve. The Bulldog paddle, Capt Chas. Walker, will be docked this morning for the purpose of having her valves examined prior to her going out of harbour. She will soon:be ready for sea. The Adventure troopship, Capt. Waddilove, is still in the hands of the dockyard officials and along side the jetty ; she is, however, nearly completed in her fittings, and will probably embark naval super numeraries and a few troops (detachments) to-mor ro ee and leave on Wednesday or Thursday for China, calling at Plymouth and Dublin. Very extensive alterations have been made in the internal fittings of this ship, and her ventilation is ranch improved. The subjoined is notified as the amended scale of allowances to officers of her Majesty's ships on the East India station, who may qualify themselves to Bet as interpreters in Oriental languages, sanctioned by the India Office :—Per Mensem,—Class I. For Hindostanee or Persian, 180 rupees, moonshee allowance ; 50 rupees, interpreter's allowance. Class IL For Arabic, 180 rupees, moonshee allow ance ; 100 rupees, interpreter's allowance. Class 111. For Hindostanee, Arabic, and Persian (three languages), 180 rupees, moonshee allowance ; 200 rupees interpreter's allowance. In appointing in terpreters preference will be given to Class 111. over Class IL, and to Class 11. over Class I. The Highflyer, screw, after having had very ex tensive repairs in Mr. White's yard at Cowes, was towed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday. It is expected she will immediately be brought forward and fitted out, in readiness for being commissioned. The America, target ship, having been repaired and made available for further service, was un docked on Saturday. She will resume her station this morning, and some interesting trials will take place to-morrow. Seven armour-plates have been affixed to her sides—One 41in from Beale and Co., Sheffield ; one 51in and one Gin from Brown and Co., ; one Gin and one 5 1 e in from the Thames Iron Company (the latter being manufac tured from iron imported from Norway); and two 41-iu French plates. The screw steamship Princess Royal, 73, Capt. Jones, fleg of Rear Admiral G. St. Vincent Kin , ' C. 8., left P l ymouth So un d on Saturday afternoon' for t he Cape of Good Hope Station. The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Captain Rochfori Maguire, was taken into dock at D..von port on Saturday to make good her defects. The screw steam coastguard ship Ajax, 60, Capt. Michael Da Courcy , is earl y expected at Plymouth from Kingston. The screw stea m ironcased ship Research, 4, Capt. William Hurst, and the .paddlewheel steamsloop Gladiator, 6, at Plymouth , received dr aug ht s o f seamen and marines on Saturday. The Royal Marine division at Woolwich, which has for some time past been considerably below its allotted strength, was on Saturday further reduced, 55 men of the division having been previously exa mined by a medical board, were invalided and dis charged from the service, and 75 recruits were trans ferred to the depot station at Deal. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Alfred G. H. HerTey, midship- man, to the Revenge ; F. Day and A. M. Brum mage, assist. engineer, to the Bulldog; Lieut: Francis C. R. Baker, to the Excellent, for study ; Lieut. H. Wilkinson, to the Majestic ; Lieut. A. H. Webb to the Asia ; Lieut. Godfrey Taylor to the Pembroke; and Lieut. George W. Allen to the Geyer. The undernamed have been nominated naval cadets :—Joseph Alleyne, Frederick Bell, Archibald W. Cavage, Arthur G. Cuthbert, Henry C. Dawson, Philip A. C. De Crespigny, Arthur Dove, Charles S. Elton, Reginald B. Fulford, George K. Gordon, Martin A. Hammill, William P. L. Heyland, Edwin A. Hobson, Walter H. Maher, the Hon. Basil Napier, Michael P. O'Callaghan, Charles G. Robinson, George H. C. Stapleton, Ferdinand F. Tapper, George Walmisley, Frank C. Younghnsband, Francis G. Jones, Charles M. Le Blanc, George P. Hender son, Reginald Y. Smith, Charles J. Poole, Murray William Gruggen, and William H. Hingston. THE ARMY. Lieut.-Col. Shaw's improved system of gun car riage was tested on Friday at the proof butt in Woolwich Arsenal, in the presence of the Ordnance Select Committee. A6B pounder gun, from which the trunnions had been removed, and which has been mounted on the carriage for the purpose of the experimental trials at Woolwich and Shoeburyness, discharged ten rounds with perfect success. The detachment of the Coldstream Guards, under the command of Lieut. the Hon. Heneage Legge, having completed their course of firing at East bourne, returned to the Wellington Barracks on Wednesday. On the same day detachments from the Ist and 2d battalions of the Coldstreams, con sisting of six officers and 130 men, under the com mend of Cols. Baring and Goodlake, proceeded to Eastbourne for musketry practice. From an order received last week at Woolwich it appears that the War Department have at length decided on introducing the Whitworth rifle as the future arm of the service. A large number of the rifles have been manufactured and stored at Wool. with, in the Royal Arsenal, for distribution. The whole of the Line regiments now stationed at Al• dershot are ordered to be supplied. forthwith. Three companies of the 60th Rifle Brigade, in command of Col. Sir J. Campbell, are ordered to take np their quarters in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Wool wich during the present week, to go through a course of rifle practice in the Plumstead-marsh. They will be equipped with the Whitworth rifle on their arrival. A huge block of iron, cast in the foundry at Woolwich, weighing 55 tons, and intended as the base of one of the Nasmyth steam hammers used in wielding the gun coils in the Royal gun facto ries, was on Friday hauled out of the foundry to be fixed in its position. Its removal through the Ar senal, which is to ba effEcted by means of double pnrchase hand engines, in consequence of its enor mous weight, will occupy three days. Mr. St. George, who has been long employed by the Military Store Department in Hyde-park, has been appointed to an important district in North Britain. He will succeed, we believe, Superinten dent Pearce at Edinburgh, the latter gentleman being about to retire. : THE INUNDATION AT SHEFFIELD. bIIEFFIELD, Sunday. The scene of the flood was visited again to-day by many thousand people, including enormous num bers who had come by trai❑ from distant towns. Additional bodies are found daily, but there are still about forty unaccounted for. The district com mittees are labouring hard to mitigate the great distress resulting from the flood. Clothing and other assistance has already been supplied to large numbers of persons who were starving, but the immediate claims are so numerous and pressing that much remains to be done. Great efforts are being made to clear away the mud and filth left in cottages and streets ; but though 100 carts are at work, and from 300 to 400 men, the streets are scarcely more passable that. they were some days ago, such is the quantity of mud thrown out of houses and cellars. Disinfectants are being freely ?1,2c1r1 fora v.ct 1-1 n ;n, nn - 3 • 1 •1. z J'- the mud, which in the warm weather is already be coming very disagreeable, will generate fevers or other contagious disease, unless the greatest pre cautions arc used. The cause of the bursting of the reservoir gives rise to much comment. An engineer supplies to the Sheffield Independent the following, understood to be an authoritative account of the bursting of the reservoir : "Knowing something of the conformation of the rocks about Bradfield, and having visited the dam since the flood, I venture an opinion, which I think is the right one, of the cause of the sad disas ter. In digging for the foundation of the puddle bank the contractors of the water company had to contend with great volumes of water issuing through the fissures of the rocky strata underlying the lower part of the valley; Special engine power had to be used to keep down the water, and a labour of somewhere about twelve months was required to cat off the streams and get a toler ably dry bed for the muddle bank at the depth of 60ft. Having made a good puddle wall, the com pany built their embankment with the soil from the sides and bottom of the valley above, thus having the strata of the open shelving rock. The puddle wall appears to have been sufficiently thick and strong. Possibly a somewhat broader foundation might have been better ; but I do not in the least believe that the mere pressure on the embankment of any amount of water the dam would hold could have damaged it in the least. The complaints made of the friable character of the soil covering the puddle bank and forming the outer portion of the embank ment are childish. The real cause of the bursting of the reservoir I take to be this, The rocky bot tom and sides of the valley having been bared, the water in proportion to its quantity and weight found its way through the fissures of the rock into the courses of the springs which proved such a serious obstacle to the laying of the foundations of the puddle bank. As the pressure became great the water forced its way on and o❑ until it undermined the foundations of the puddle bank, probably at lasi splitting it in two, and causing the crack in the top of the embankment. A remarkable circumstance to be taken into account in ascertaining the cause of the flood is that about 9 o'clock in the evening the water in the dam lowered two feet. This appears to be inexplicable except on the supposition that the water found an inlet into the rocks. The rending away of the outer half of the puddle bank would naturally let down the top of the em bankment outwardly, as it was in fact let down and the water, thus rushilg over the hollow thus made, would carry the lower part," TIIE INCREASED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY AND INCOME OF TEE NATION during these 40 years has been £90,000,000. The following table shows how it has accrued:-- ET AMOUNT OF FitorERTY AND INCOME LIABLE TO ASSESSMENT. 1815. 1856. Land .... • •.,•• £11,521.492 .. X 8 8, 1 53, 935 Houses 16,259,400 .. 48,435,585 Quarries, mines, ironworks, canals, and railways Farmers' profits Funds Trades and professions .. Government departments £152,358,226 .. .£ 2 42,467,363 These figures aro en exceedingly interesting record of the progress of the nation. [ADvxlmsEmENT.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilious liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arablca Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,014, Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured alter the medical mon had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks, emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy girl,—N. Lange, Commissaire de Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. —Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. the Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical rcatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 0d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, 118; 121 b, 228; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grocerb and chemistb in every town of the United. kingdom, THE SUN, LONDON, /VIONDAY EVRXING, MARCH 21, 1864, Boiler Explosion in Spitalfields, The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr. Robert Saunders, who lost his life through the bursting of a boiler in Spitalfields on Friday week, was resumed on Friday morning last, before Mr. Humphreys, the coroner for East London, at the Neats Tongue Tavern, Great Pearlsistreet. Mr. John Saunders, the proprietor of the premises where the accident took place, stated that the boiler in question was purchased by hi.m from Mr. Shore, boiler-maker, about three ye. - A rs since. At the time of the purchase the maker F r j tlve no information as to the amount of pressure it would bear, The engine was generally workPA at a pressure of from 351 b. to 381 b. on the r i - aare inch. On the morning of the accident, about three minutes before it took place, he noticed the safety valve just beginning to blow off. The pres sure then was 381 b., which be considered quite safe. John Raven, the engine driver, was on the premises at the time, and it was his duty to know the state of the safety valve and water. No one in his employ ever made any complaint against the engine or boiler. The pressure before mentioned was that required to work the lathes and saws. On Mon• day three weeks Riven cleaned out the boiler, but made no complaint as to its condition. He did not know the power of the boiler, but the engine was a 10-horse one. There were two safety valves to the boiler, one weighted with llib. and the other with 281 b. and an iron boss. It was the small valve that was blowing off just before the accident. John Raven said he had been an engine -driver for the last 1G years. He had charge of the engine and boiler at Mr. Saunders's mills on the day of the acci dent; he stopped the engine at 1 o'clock, when the pressure was 301 b. He fetched his dinner imme diately after and ate it on the boiler, where he re mained until Mr. Saunders called him off at 20 minutes to 2. He then examined the gauge and found the steam at 351 b. Shortly after it rose to 3Slb., and he opened the damper and made up the fire He left the boiler, however, and proceeded to oil the engine, upon which work he was engaged when the explosion took place. He could not in any way account for it. Mr. John LW, an engineer from Messrs. Grissell's works, was then examined, and gave the following report of his examination of the remains of the boiler :—The boiler was a Cor nish ore, 20 feet long, with fiat ends, the shell 4ft. 2in. in diameter. The internal tube was slightly oval, being 2ft. 9in. in its longest diameter, aad 2ft. Bin. in the shortest. The plates were of middling quality, and the workmanship was on!y middling fair. He had no doubt the collapse had been caused by excessive pressure. There was no appearance of any deficiency of water. The valves were not in working order, the lever of the small one working stiff in the joint and between the guides. From the examination of the boiler he considered it would be dangerous to use a greater pressure than 30Ib. He thought it imperatively necessary to have a water-gauge where the persons in charge of the engine were unskilled. Floating water-gauges required considerable tact and judgment on the part of the engine-driver. He thought that boiler-makers ought to be compelled by law to stamp the working pressure of a boiler upon the front of it. It was highly dangerous for unskilled artisans to have the power of raising the pressure as they pleased. From the evidence he had heard he considered that the boiler was not sufficiently strong to execute the work necessary for carrying on Mr. Saunders's business, and that it had been forced beyond its strength. John Raven was recalled and questioned touching the state of the lever of the small safety-valve before the accident, but he persisted in declaring that it worked quite easily both at the joist and in the guide. He allo wed that he was uncertain as to the weights on the same lever being 41b. and 71b. re spectively. The jury, having consulted for a few minutes, returned a verdict of "Accidental death from the explosion of a steam boiler, the said ex plosion being caused by the boiler being worked beyond its strength, owing to the imperfect condi tion of the safety-valve," Appended to the verdict was a rec)mmeudation to the effect that a legisla tive enactment should be passed compelling boiler makers to stEr_up their boilers with their working • G . L licensed engineers to have charge of engines and boilers, and providing for the periodical examina tion of all boilers by duly qualified inspector. The Alleged. Robbery of g,500,000 of Polish Bonds. Mr. Stanislas Foerster, who described himself as the agent of Mr. Lemaire, a gun manufacturer, of Liege, and Mr. Stanislas Hernisez, of Ford's Hotel, appeared at the Guildhall on Saturday, before Alderman Besley and Sir R. W. Carden, at the in stance of Mr. De Berg, the Ras3ian Consul-General, to answer the charge of having unlawfully in their possession one hundred bonds, of the value of £27,500, which had been identified as a portion of a large quantity of bonds, to the value of £500,000, alleged to have been stolen from the Russian Go vernment Bank Treasury, at Warsaw, on the 9th of June, 1863. Mr. Poland, instructed by Messrs. W. and H. P. Sharp, the solicitors to the Russian Embassy, con ducted the prosecution j Mr. Leverson appeared for Mr. Foerster j and Mr. Ricketts defended Mr. Hernisc z. Mr. Poland said the bonds in question were issued by the "Societe ds CrCylit Foncier," the Polish' Landowners' Society at Warsaw, which was under the especial protection of the Emperor of Russia. This society obtained a large quantity of bonds on the Crown lands, which were deposited in the offices of the finance commission at Warsaw. On the 9th of June last year the coffers of the treasury were examined, and it was found that bonds to the amount of X 500,000 had been abstracted. As soon as the loss was discovered the fact was advertised throughout Europe, the numbers were publicly notified, and all persons were cautioned against purchasing them. The Russian Government then, in pursuance of the law, claimed a right to have duplicates of the bonds, and such duplicates were accordingly granted by the Landowners' Associa tion, which have superseded the original shares. Sir R. Carden said that might be Russian law, but it was contrary to English law. Mr. Poland then detailed the manner in which Mr. Sharp became possessed of these bonds, which has already been fully recorded in our columns, and submitted that he had a right to detain them. He also urged that there was a sufficient case made out for conviction against the defendants. In answer to a question from Sir It. Carden, it was stated that the defendants were not aware when they went to Messrs. Sharp, that they were the solicitors to the Russian Government. Mr. Leverson, on behalf of the defendants, pro posed to call Mr. Lemaire, who claimed to be the owner of the bonds, in order to account for his pos session of them. There was, in fact, an action pend ing to recover them from Mr. Sharp. Alderman Begley said in that case he must dis miss the summonses. The Legislature never con templated applying the Police Act to a case of such magnitude, and as the objection had been raised that the unlawfully obtaining bends took place beyond the jurisdiction of this kingdom, he could not go further into the case. Mr. Leverson stated that these bonds were taken from Mr. Lemaire at the instigation of the Russian agents i❑ Paris, and after explanations had been heard on both sides, the perfect of police returned them to Mr. Lemaire, and reprimanded the authori ties for depriving him of them in the first instance, and this fact Mr. Pe Barg was cognisant of. Mr. Alderman Bexley said it was not worth while to discuss the matter further, as it was evidently a case for the Court of Queen's Bench. The parties then retired, Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only save the money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same time secure to themselves the possession of one of the best and most celebrated sewing machines in the werld. Every in formation given on application; or by letter addressed, with a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufort buildings, Strand, London, W.C., where men+ rs are en .tollQd. daily Detweenlo and 4; Saturdays, 10 The Loss of the Ship Volunteer. OFFICIAL 8.1,76 RT. The following report has just been received by the Board of Trade;— Mauritius, Dee. 28, 1463, The Volunteer, from Matritins for 'Calcutta, wrecked Dec. 8 on',Vargudes Shoals, appears to have been lost by the want of experience and presumption of the master. He went out of his way for no purpose connected with the voyage. He neglected the most ordinary precautions. He lost his vessel on a weather shore. There are no extenuat ing circumstancees, unless inexperience can be considered in that light ; and had any life been lost his position would have been a very serious one indeed. The Board beg to draw attention to the circumstance of there not having been a second observer, or any check whatever on the sights of the master. It is impossible now to determine whether the vessel's position at noon, on Dec. 6 was rightly laid down on the chart or not. The navigation of the vessel was in the captain's hands alone. There might have been an error in the watch, in the sights, in the working, or in the S taking the time. This reprehensible system of not seeking ,the co operation of one of the officers appears not confined to the Vclunteer. The master states in his evidence that the same plan was followed by the former master of that vessel (under whom he served), and that as he was taught so he acted. If the first mate had been admitted to the confidence of the captain in the way the Board think he ought to have been, there appears reason to believe, from his evidence. that the Volunteer would not have been lost. An error of 30 minutes in the vessel's position by observation, by the effect of an easterly current, was more than sufficient to produce disastrous consequences ; but setting aside this particular case, such a system seems fraught with danger to every ship where it is practised. The captain may fall sick, or die suddenly, and he alone knows the error and rates of the chronometer and other matters con nected with the navigation of his ship, the vessel's position, the dangers that lie in her track, See, ; and an officer suddenly finds himself in command, and, at the same time, in the most complete ignorance of what it is of the highest importance he should be intimately acquainted with. Besides, men's faculties rust from want of use, and what guarantee is there that an officer who has been syste matically prevented from working the time, taking Inners, &c., should be ready at that sort of work when required of him at a moment's notice. The Board trust that this perni • cious system is confined to but few ships, and that measures may be taken to do away with it once. Most commanders are glad to have officers who are good hands at observation and calculation, and encourage the taking sights of all kinds; and the feelings of a commander suddenly struck down by sickness or accident when in charge of a valuable ship, in perhaps a critical position, with many lives entrusted to his care, troops or emigrants, or even his own officers and crew alone, cannot be very enviable when he reflects that, so far as he knows, he has not an officer fit to replace him as a navigator, having never tested their qualifications in that respect, but even carefully excluded them from participat ing in that duty beyond the working of the dead reckon ing. If the first mate is not the confidant of the captain in these matters, he ought to be, and the Board trust that these remarks on this important subject, whether as re gards life, property, insurers, or commerce generally, will not be lost sight, of. There are no other charges against Mr. Todhunter than want of experience, consequent ne glect of precaution, and a careless sort of presumption too common to youth. These have led to the loss of his ship, but he deserves credit for the manner in which he be haved after that unfortunate event. There appears to have been no disorder. Proper and reasonable efforts were made to get the ship afloat. The preparations for abandon. ment were made without hurry or confusion, the boats were fitted and victualled, and the officers and crew were brought in safety to the Mauritius ; and it would be unjust to Mr. Todhunter not to bring these favourable circum stances to notice, and it would be equally unjust to his offi cars to suppose that they are not entitled to their full share of commendation in carrying out the commander's orders with zeal and intelligence in effecting these objects. D. WALLS, Harbour-Master, President of the Board. 11. J. BELL, President of the Chamber of Commerce. JAMES FRASER, Agent for Lloyd's. Tilos. H. MuLLEss, Surveyor to the Mauritius Marine Insurance Company. JOHN S. ELLIS, Surveyor for the Melbourne Vic toria Insurance Company. Proceedings confirmed. HENRY BARii.LEY. The Ship John Linn. OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the official report of Mr. Rafil3s, of Liverpool, who was deputed by the Board of Trade to in quire into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the ship John Linn : TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE COI • ',SITTER OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE. My Lords,—ln pursuance of your directions, I have held an official investigation into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the ship John Linn, of Liverpool, which ormirrpa •-•-• of thc Ist Jart”..—. , about latt2o 30 N., and long 37 57 W. In this inquiry I have been assisted by Captains Harris and Cow, as Nautical Assessors, and now beg to report :That the John Linn was built at St. John, New Brunswick, in the year 1854, and registered at Liverpool in the year 1858, of the burthen of 1,596 10-100 tons. Her length was 205 feet, her breadth 39 8-10, and the depth of her hold from the tonnage deck was 22 feet 4-10. Her original tonnage appears to have been 1,171 57-100 tons, but having been subsequently raised upon, her gross tonnage became 1,590 10 , 100, as stated in her register. The John Linn was owned by Mr. David Fernie, merchant, of Liverpool, and was commanded by Mr. Thos. Browning, who holds a certificate of competency as master, dated the 4th of June, 1800. She had a crew of 30 hands, all told, at the time of her abandonment. The John Linn left Liverpool, on the outward voyage, in Dec., 1892, bound to Bombay, and arrived there on the Ist of May, 1803. While at Bombay she was thoroughly caulked from the copper upwards to the gunwale, and does not ap pear to have made any water as she took in her cargo. Having completed her loading, which was of great value, consisting of seeds, spices, dyes, and cotton, which was in sured in Liverpool alone at £120,000, she sailed from Bom bay, staunch and in good condition, on Sept. 16 last, draw ing 22 feet 5 inches aft, and 20 feet 8 inches forward. Dur ing her passage home the ship encountered some heavy weather oft the Cape of Good Hope, but does not appear to have strained or to have made any water. On Dec. 7, being then in 1 35 N, and 29 39 W, a leak was discovered, which continued to increase till the evening of Jan, I,when the ship was abandoned. During these 24 days every effort was made to contend against the leak, but to no purpose, and the captain appears to have altered his cotlrse first for the West Indies, subsequently for the Cape deVerd Islands, the then nearest land, on both of which occasions ho )vad battled by head winds. From Dec. 30 to Jan. 2 very bad weather prevailed, a gale blowing from the S.S.W., which, however unusual in that latitude, was singularly confirmed by a reference to the log of the Deop;aum, the vessel which fell in with the John Linn after her abandonment, On Dec. 31 all the pumps got hopelessly choked with seed, and they commenced to throw cargo overboard, making a well in the afterbold for the purpose of baling, which was con tinued till the Felix Bernabo was sighted. The crew were by this time exhausted, the weather continued threatening, night was coming on, and the master of the John Linn, finding the water within 4 feet or 4- feet of her lower hold beams, embraced the offer of the master of the Felix Ben nabo, to take himself and crew on board, and they left their vessel, and were carried into Martinique. It nay here be added that the captain of the I'elix Bernabo, in a letter addressed to the Commissary of Marine at Martinique, asserted that the John Linn appeared to him to be unman ageable and in a sinking state when he took her master and crew on board. Within 24 hours of the abandonment the Deogaum, commanded by Captain Beaglehole, bound from Callao to Antwerp, fell in with the derelict, but no one boarded hot till Sunday morning, at 7 o'clock. The chief mate then vent on board in the first boat, and he hailed the Deogaum, roporting the John Linn to be half full of water, which he estimated at 11 feet. Immediately afterwards Capt. Beaglehole and his second mate want on board, and stand ing on the ;ergo in the lower hold, sounded with a capstan bar and felled, as he stated, 3ft. Gin, of water. As the cargo consisted if nine tiers of bags below the cotton, and only three had been removed, it is obvious that he could not have reached he skin of the ship by many feet. In fact, the second locate admitted that when he sounded ho struck on something which he took to be a bag. No other soundings were takes, and no attempt was made to sound the well, although I 7 feet sounding rod was lying on the deck be side the lump. The Deogaum remained by the ship till 2 p.m. on 7ueeday the nth, during which time they made no attempt 'o sail her, but occupied themselves in removing the ship's soils, stores, and furniture. Upon leaving her the chief mete, believing that there was no chance of saving the vessel, upon his sole responsibility set her on fire—an act whi,h, under the circumstances, was net justifiable, and certainly not without consulting his master. The Deogaum sailed s;owly away, and the last that was seen of the burn ing vessel wts about 11 p.m., her mainmast having previ ously fallen over the side. After hearing the evidence of Capt. Beaglehole and such of his officers and crew as were called, I wet clearly of opinion that the evidence failed to substantiatcthe serious charge which had been made against the master and crew of the John Linn, the gist of which wa.s,lhat tee ship has been abandoned with 3 feet G inches of water mly in her hold, whereas it was obvious that in a ship of her size they never touched the bottom in sounding. On the other hand, the cviience of the chief officer and other of the crew of the a ohn Linn, confirmed as it was by the examination of a carefully Rept logbook, atisfled me that the master and his crew used every exertion to get his ship home, or into a port of safety. and only abandoned her in extremity, and when ho consi dered it necessary to cave life, and after 24 days of unre mitting exerton. Under these circumstances, I have had great pleasure in returning to Captain Browning his certi ficate:eel hare, &e., J. S. RATTLES, Police Magistrate. Liverpool, qarch 15, 1864. We concur n the obove report, H. HARRIS, I Nautical Assessors, Jour Cow, SPIRIT (A' TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATITRDAY RE'VIEw.-- , The material of the present Ministry excites in the beholder something of the interest and admiration which is produced in the mind by the contemplation of some remnant of CyClopean architecture that has endured from prime= vat times. It has no particular beauty, and no great suitability for the purpose to which it is ap plied. But it is impossible to think of the difficul ties with which the buildier had to contend, and which he overcame, without heartfelt wonder. To hate so adjusted rough angular blocks of stone, not fitting into each other, without cement or mortar of any kind, as to forme stable and lasting edifice, must have required almost superhuman ingenuity. And that is the impression produced on a bystander who contemplates the task which Lord Palmerston has achieved in composing his present Ministry into a structure that has endured so lang. Men more opposed in character, more antipathetic in sentiment, than some of th'ose whom he selected or colleagues it would have been difficult to find. Arid there were no external circumstances to cement them together.. There was no principle they held in common, no danger they equally feared, no poli tical object they combined to pursue. Nothing but :he dexterity of a cunning architect could have fitted them so ingeniously together. But occasion ally the cleverest architect in this style will be puzzled by some stone of a shape so rugged and angles so abnormal that it will fit in nowhere, and only perils the edifice of which it is made to form a part. If current rumour may be trusted, this is much the position which is at this moment filled by Mr. Stansfeld in the eyes of his disquieted leaders. A Ministry representing the Liberal party as it now is,is necessarilyconstructed upon peculiar principles. The natural leadership of course belongs, by Divine right, to the Whigs. It is necessary that they should form a decided majority in the Cabinet, and that the more important offices should be in their hands. But though strong in statesmen,or at least inveteran poli ticians, this historic party is lamentably weak in fol lowers. Those numbers which, mean and prosaic as the consideration may be, are necessary to give practical effect to adroit partisanship are unhap pily not to be supplied by the Whig party! itself. Like the American militia before the civil war, this gallant force consists mainly of generals and colonels. The consequence is that they are compelled to look around them for allianees by which this vulgar con dition of victory may be supplied. The Radicals are prepared to furnish an adequate contingent, for a consideration. A concession or two in matters of principles would do, but, in these days of resting and being thankful, such concessions are a hard matter to furnish. Yet this difficulty is easily overcome, for concessions in matters of place are more acceptable still. Accordingly the arrange ment has been that while, in deference to their in alienable rights, the official drawing-room is occupied by the Whigs, the official steward's-room is generously abandoned to the Radicals. In accordance with this understanding, one of the ablest members of the Radical party, Mr. Stansfeld, was selected for preferment, and the important post of Junior Lord of the Admiralty was offered for his acceptance. Under such circumstances, he evidently finds inexpressible consolation in calling himself, " however unworthy, yet a Minister of the Crown." It might be imagined that this curious arrangement, by which Whig peers and sons of peers get the good places, and Radical talents get the bad ones, was eminently favourable to the former. In practice, however, this does not always turn out to be the case. Alliances with extreme politicians are necessarily hazardous proceedings. W hen you take a young Whig into your ranks, there are certain important points of which you may be secure. You may be certain that tie will have scrupulously observed every conventional decorum. He will never have displayed any enthusiasm for any cause except at the moment when every one else was mad about it too, He will never have acquired equivocal friendships by connection with those doubtful enterprises that are ranged under the categories of treason or patriotism according to their success. But all this safe sobriety is lost directly you venture into a political temperature more elevated than prevails in the tepid climate of the great Whig houses. No doubt, when the Ministers offered a junior lordship of Admiralty to Mr. Stansfeld, they thought they were buying the democracy very cheap. It never seems to have occurred to them that they were taking Mazzini " with all his engagements" into the b irgain. For a Government that was already on cold terms with the Emperor of the French, the discoveries of the Procureur-Imperial, and the re marks which they have provoked in England, were certainly untoward. To Mr. Stansfeld himself they would have been harmless if it had not been for the singular want of judgment displayed in his replies. There seems to have been nettling in his actual conduct that any reasonable man would h.vu ao cviueuue or more than deplorable in discretion. He was on terms of intimate friendship with an exile, who of course was plotting for the restoration of the cause in which he had suffered. He naturally aided him to the best of his power in those plans. The only power which a foreign police can exercise over a refugee who has found an asylum here is by tampering with the letters addressed to him through the Post-offices over which they have power. Nothing, therefore, was more intelligible than that Mazzini should have his letters sent to a false address ; and his English friends would naturally be willing to allow him to make use of their houses for that purpose. So long as the correspondence was confined to political plotting, there was nothing in the proceedings either of Mazzini or of his English ally that was open to reproach. Nothing criminal could be im puted to Mr. Stansfeld unless it was shown that, while he gave this permission, he knew that his friend was concerned in organizing a murder plot. His troubles have been entirely owing to the singular want of judgment he displayed in his earlier answers. At first the House was very much disinclined to enter upon the subject. Investiga tions into the private lives of public men are not much to the taste of an assembly not a few of whose members inhabit houses of the frailest glass. The principle of taking a man to task for the friends with whom he might choose to live was felt to be one that might be carried very far. If Mr. Stens feld had availed himself of this feeling, and had met his questioner with simple and straightforward answers, he would have heard little more of the matter. That ho had been guilty of grave impru dence in continuing, after ho had taken office, to allow Mazzini to have letters sent under a feigned nain ^ to his house, was acknowledged on Thurs •- friends and in effect by himself. Had day by he. nkly on the first night all that he he admitted tra_ and added a few expressions admitted on Thursaee • could probably have been of regret, nothing more Ne he , committed a t n o heard upon the matter. ba. error, very nearly fatal to the An.... • rhetorical which he belongs, in betaking himself to flourishes instead of straightforward ane People always believe there is something wrote, in the case of a defendant who runs off into vague declamation. The panegyric upon Mazzini was still more unfortunate. The documents cited by Mr. Hennessy and Sir Henry Stracey show that at least there have been times in his life when Mazzini believed in the lawfulness of tyrannicide. It was very difficult to persuade the House of Commons that Mr. Stansfeld was not cognisant of these writings; and yet, unless he was wholly ignorant of this tendency of Mazzini's mind, it was inexcusable in him to have become a blind participator in schemes of whose character he was ignorant. But these writings would never have been dragged into the light if Mr. Stansfeld had not provoked a scrutiny by his injudicious pane gyric. The result was that Mr. Brand's nerves were rudely shaken ; and the apparent stability of the Government in the eyes of foreign countries has been formidably weakened. LONDON REVIEW.—Some months ago, when a mysterious paragraph appeared in all the news papers informing us that her Majesty had posted notices over Windsor Palace to the effect that no smoking would be tolerated upon the Royal pre mises, a slight thrill of anxiety ran through the country. The impression produced was considered to be of sufficient importance to warrant the semi official communication, which followed a few days after to assure the public, that the caution had not figured on the walls of that portion of the Palace which was devoted to the Prince of Wales. Fo reigners must have been at a loss to understand the question from beginning to end. That Queen Victoria should object to tobacco would be matter, in the eyes of a philosophical Ger man, rather for pity than for alarm. But a stranger would never cemprehend the interest felt everywhere when the Times announced the Queen's views, or the relief generally experienced when it became further known that the heir to the throne was not to be debarred the privilege of ruin ing his royal constitution by cigars. Foreigners as a general rule watch the sayings and doings of their respective courts with at least as much attention as that which attaches amongst ourselves to the various occupations and journeys of the Queen of England and of her family. Even in Belgium, where there is little of monarchy beyond the name, the Duke of Brabant and his brothers can scarcely enter a shop to buy a pair of Brussels gloves, with out finding their adventure chronicled the next morning in the journals of the metropolis. But the cigars of the Prince of Wales on this occasion pro duced a greater sensation still. With a little more fanning the subject might have even told upon the funds. The two paragraphs connoted to English ears much more than they denoted to a continental reader. Nothing could be deemed a greater mis fortune by the majority of the nation than the - a faintest indication of a dissension, however in hotwater. But now he hag triv.ial, but he is always between the Queen and any of her children. re':nce incurred, and it, etly incurred, general censure for his weakness wit, h reference to the convict Tow ne the deeply lamented death of Prince Albert, the _ w il l Tories, A_ d that, ; too, go to the credit of the Queen's subjects have been watching her with irate- ley, cause the affair would have terminated rest and sympathy, and with much concern. Every probably e.. e .4 , • - in the hands of the imperious year that she is preserved to cis adds to the difficul- so very differe,. . 'Y - e. Then there is Mr. Robert ties of a very difficult position. The heir to the and decided Walpee most finished classical educe' - thrdne has grown into a manhood that seems to Lowe. Combining the , perience of colonial life , C fulfil the fair hopes universally entertained from the an with the rough ea both in Parliament and promise of his youth. We look back on the miss- successful beyond most men ~, rable mischief caused in times not co very distant in society—here, it would seat ~ was just the man served i the pu b ic. by differences between royal parents and their to conciliate everybody while he children, and congratulate ourselves that we are not It has, as a matter of tact, been his e " tin ) . t° m . a a l likely to be harassed by a repetition of the evil. many propositions for the reform of on. No shadow of the kind could again fall upon the system, and every one has been a signal for a hub in Court without stretching itself far and wide over bub among the clergy, at which the laity wb re the nation. Nobody felt, therefore, at all ashamed mere self-defence obliged to stop their ears. , cre education.. of exhibiting as much interest—as even Sir Charles will not pause to comment on what all men rece, Phipps himself—in her Majesty's dislike of tobacco ; nise, the tact of Mr. Layard and the discretion or in the amenities invariably observed by one Sir Robert Peel. But take the crowning instance member of the royal family towards another. The of all — take Mr. Gladstone. Ilia propositions, 41/ jealous anxiety with which English people are all 'east, are no blunders. sever was a more beneficeut guessing at the sentiments of Queen Victoria about measure offered to Parliament than the Government. the unhappy Danish war is excusable, even if here Annuities Bill. It opens a future to the lahotarer -4 and there it begins to take an exaggerated form. hope to the only class in this country which ho Lord Derby pays a visit to her Majesty at Osbo rne, hi t h erto had no ho p e—and g ives them protect or King Leopold comes across the channel to stay against the fraud or the incompetency of the neiteli with her at Windsor, and straightway the tongue agitators who govern the so-called friendly societiesa of gossip starts off upon its busy round. The leader Has it met with the support it deserves ? Is it' of the Opposition has been sent for to tell her even safe from the opposition of a knot of members Majesty whether she is obliged by the Constitution interested in insurance companies, or fearful of the .. to obey the decision of the Cabinet. Her Majesty' s wrath of th e Odd Fellows at the next election r uncle has travelled over to give her counsel on the And yet, unless it be in introducing the bill a little nice point whether Lord Palmerston is not too hot- too quietly and speaking his mind on the motion for spirited an adviser. Finally, we learn from the going into committee a little too plainly, detraction unerring lips of rumour, that her Majesty has made itself can find no fault with Mr. Gladstone. Whate up her mind in case England declares war for Den - then , is the m eanin g of these si g ns and portents r mark to pass the summer at Coburg in a German They mean that there is a Conservative reaction• castle by herself. All these inventions of the Clubs All these little petty mistakes, all this event of tact, filter by slow degrees into the country newspapers, a few years back would have signified no thing. All and are destined in course of time to become the Governments are always open to the mete sort of subject of grave discussion at many a village ale- fault - finding. But in the y outh of a parny, whell house. The excitement the topics in question cause its leaders first seat themselves on the seools of is partially increased by the evident embarrassment office, it is full of life and hope, and no one cares to of the Ministry at having to deal with so compli- criticise captiously. Small faults are readily over cated a problem as the rival claims of Denmark and looked, and every proposition wears a roseate hue• of the German Diet. Whenever Lord Russell can- If the Opposition open their lips a thousand tongue' ) not make head or tail of the last despatch from are ready to defend the Ministry. The malcontents Berlin or from Vienna, his hesitation is at once put are out-talked, out-voted, ridiculed, and cowed. A down to the account of his loyalty, and his head is few years go by, and there is a change. Supporters supposed to be kept in a state of distraction by his are languid. Some men have got what they wants heart. In spite of all the respect professed by Eng- and some men see they are not likely to get it. The lishmen for monarchy as a system of government, measures on which the party were agreed are passed, they seem to grow nervous and petulant at the least and on what should be done next there are dif f er' suspicion that the Crown is interfering inthe politics ences of opinion. Then the Opposition gathers of the day. This is a little curious, for nothing can courage. Its attacks are less vigorously repulsed, be plainer than that the wearer of the English and consequently are more vigorously plied. Hops crown must always of necessity exercise a consider- passes over to its side. When hope is gone, faith is able personal influence on politics. If there ever sure soon to follow her sister, and governments can was a question in which Royalty was personally not found themselves on charity alone. Then mei interested it is the present. The Queen of England begin to recognise the end is near. It is not this% is connected by the closest of all ties with some el' the Tories are one jot better orators, or statesmen. the leading actors in the present Germa n movement. or adminis trators, or that the Liberals are one jot Her Majesty understands the way in which Germans worse than they were formerly. But the supporters view the Slesvig-Holstein affair better, doubtless, of the former are uniting more closely, while the than many of her subjects. She sees the allowances latter party are disintegrating slowly under the in. that ought to be made for the German Courts which fluence of their own prosperity. Believing this to be are driven into war by an excited population, and the true state of the case, we, as Liberals see eo she knows the history of the various influences that use in denying it, no use in making excuses are at work in Germany itself. If she cares for when the Premier's near relative is beaten for big England she cannot help being deeply anxious that own county, no use in crying, " Peace ! Peace !' England should not rush into war without having when there is no peace. It is better to get out of mastered the rights of the dispute. The death of fool's paradise.. Nothing keeps us in office but the a wise husband has, moreover, deprived her of the popularity of Lord Palmerston, and even that may best and most judicious of counsellers. She has a fail us any day. So far as the real Liberals are con' consciousness that things . seem to be going wrong, cerned, the men who care leas for power than pro and she has not the benefit of his clear head and his gress, they will lose nothing. The wholesome chill strong hand. If, under all these circumstances, her of opposition will stimulate their energies, and drive Majesty were not perplexed and troubled, she must them to exertion for life and warmth. The trim' be very unlike most other prudent and honourable mers and time servers will be pruned away. The women. In so natural an embarrassment there is Tories, on the other hand, with the sweets will much cause for sympathy and respect. taste the embarrassments of power. If places of ECONOMIST.—The num ber of new companies is twelve hundred a year were multiplied by twenty an unceasing theme of remark. They fill the city there would not be enough for the crowd of ob.- articles ; they swell the advertisement lists of all scure supporters who have not only claims, but have important papers. Most men are directors of some had, one time or another, a nod tram Tadpole or $ company or another. Every object has its company, wink from Taper, and the more eager the expecte' and most objects have many. Is all this good, or is tion the keener the disappointment. Out of office it bad ? Will it produce great evils, or is it right, for 17 years, the party have no administrators, and rational, normal ? Are we beginning a right course they cannot cover administrative blunders by a bold which we should have trodden years ago, unless policy, for their opposition is merely critics], like prohibited and prevented by legislation, or are we Peel's, which Mr. Disraeli lampooned and copies. engaging in a series of speculations which will soon Then at last the public, which after all is not Tory , recall the dreadful pnenotnena of 1847 and 1857 ? will, perhaps, begin to see that rest is not always A little inquiry will, we think, show that neither of a thing to be thankful for. John Bull will rouse these extreme opinions is correct. We think it may himself and want to move on, and if it will hasten be proved that, as far as we have go ne y et, there so desirable a consummation let us have a Tory Go' is ground for caution and discr;mination, but no vernment by all means. At present he resemble s ground for sweeping censure and condemnation. an old gentleman who is plethorically drowsy after We believe the impetus given to joint stock enter- dinner. In vain does his wife shake him—he rouses prises to be beneficial and healthy; we believe that but for an instant, and then sinks back again with it will go much further than its most sanguine pro- a stertorous snore. In his lethargy he is not s moters now imagine;, but we also think that, like graceful spectacle, but for the moment it is useless all new benefits, it may easily be changed into a to resist, he must have his sleep out. Meanwhil e new evil, and that, in matter of fact, some evil this stupor, this Conservative reaction, should be, whit& way bu distinctly specified is already being ma de the most of b y its admirers, for it is a sort o f produced by it. First, let us glance at the recent thing that does not last long, and is usually foi' facts. It appears from the carefully-classified state- lowed by a rather restless night. ment which will be found in the supplement to the Economist of Feb. 20, that in the year 1863, 263 companies were brought before the public, and that the respective nature of these were as follows : Banking companies Financial societies and discount companies Manufacturing or trading companies 65 Railway Insurance .. 14 Steam and shipping companies 6 Mining Hotel companies Gas Miscellaneous COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK-SATURDAY. There vas again a limited show of wheat at market to.. day, and business was more active, at fully late prices. In other articles former quotations were made. Wheat, red 37s to 40s Oats . White do 4os to 44s Beans Barley .26s to 32s Peas Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 28s per qr . .; flour, to 30s per sack. .. -3 1 8 8 Bs s tt t 000 2 . 4 Oci LE I CE STE It—SATURDAY. A fair supply of grain to-day, and wheat was taken off at the prices of last week. Oats and beans in hir reque!t• —New white wheat, 42s to .:45s ; red, 39s to 41s per 3 6 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting , new, 32s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 28s; old oat* 25s to 28s; new oats, 21s to 23s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 32s per 20 stone. 263 Now, is 2C3 a great number, an excessive number, or is it not ? We may impair the reputation for caution which we may think we possess when we say that this number is not an excessive number. Of the merits of the companies we say nothing — nothing at least now,—but we say that their mere multitude is no subject for alarm. In the first place, it is to be considered that the whole of the vast field till now occupied by private partnerships is at length being opened to limited companies. They are trying what part of it they can profitably en gage in, and what part they cannot. They were prohibited till a year or two back, and could not touch either what was fit or what was unfit for them; it is only within the last eighteen mouths that the investigation of the true scope and the true limits of joint stock enterprise has been partically begun. Before, by law or custom, the bulk of the trade of the country was in individual hands; now, for the first time, we are seeing what part is adapted, and what unadapted, for management by corporations. But we should be content to forego the use of this argument. The capital subscribed for these companies is, according to the same authority, £78,135,000, and if we suppose a quarter of this to be paid up, which is an exaggerated com putation, the absorbed capital is under £20,000,000. Now, we lately showed that, according to the best analysis and computation, the annual savings of the country amounted to £130,000,000,and, therefore, if all these undertakings absorbed new capital to the whole extent of the sum paid up, they would absorb - but a trifling part of the annual accumulation of ry. But, further, all thesecompanies do this coun: not absorb „ h. -ye capital to the extent of the sum paid up. Many ,af them are wholly or in part sales of a business already established, already profitable, c already absorbing a large'apital. Take a case which has occurred this week. Xiessrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co., a house in which a colonial fortune has been made, is to be turned into a joint stock company. There is no new capital wanted for that. The goods in the warehouse, and the debts which used to belong to an unlimited partnership of few members now belong to a limited partnership with many members, but the resources of the country are not trenched upon by the traesfer. It is as much a sale as if the purchaser were a new private partnership —as if the firm ceased to be Morrison and Co., and became Jones and Co. It is evident, then, that the mere size and multitude of these companies need not appal us: we have capital for a vast number more if they LO profitable. But will they be pro fitable ? To sum ups we do not fear panic from the bare operations t;_ f these companies. We are sure the country has ea ;gal twice as many. We wish we,2l to joint stock enterprise, and are c 0.7 sential soundness. Bat we are a enough for them or the principles of fident of its es ppt,ahesive that some unwholesome and mischievous trace: may be generated by undue credit and misjudging in‘ an ey lenders, and that if a panic arose from any othe7 cause, these unhealthy speculations would tend by their collapse to aggravate and intensify it. SPECTATOR.—Does any one object to the general policy of the Ministry, either at home or abroad? Not in the least. Yet no single Minister can make a proposition which commands support, or keep himself altogether clear of personal blame. Lord Palmerston, of course, is an exception. He is never wrong ; but this curious result is only attainable by paying him the rather questionable compliment of supposing that, as Prime Minister, he is not in the least responsible for the proceedings of his col ieagues. Yet even these last, even Lord Russell, and Sir G. Grey, and the underlings, are not so much wrong as unlucky. They manage so to act as to excite no enthusiasm in their favour,w hile they tread heavily on the toes of some individual with a crotchet and a bitter tongue, or some section of fanatics which can live only in a squabble. Without conciliating the majority, they outrage the minority. Probably a large majority of the English people in the main approve Lord Russell's Polish policy ; yet, by some fatality, he so acted that while the majority regard it with languid indifference, the two extreme par ties, the friends of Russia and the friends of Poland cannot speak on the subject without foaming at the mouth. Sir George Grey is an amiable man, a clever man, ti good speaker, and pereonally popular ; GRANTHAM—SA.TunDA.Y. Old white 'wheat, 43s to 465; red, 38s to 42s per 365 t.; new white, 42s to 465; red, 39s t 0,415. Malting barley' 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 23s t 2 265; now, 20s to 24s ; beans, 34s to 36s ; peas, 34s to 378. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat, and prices were abou t the same as on this day se'nnight. Best malting barley sold at about late rates. There was a dull demand 1° oats, beans, and peas. White wheat. 4 4 s to 47s 1 Red wheat 40s to 4 34 Malting barley ...35s to 37s 1 Chevalier barley 35s to 3 66 Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s 1 Oats.. 24Q to 26 4 Flour, 27s 6d to —s ed per sack from the miller NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat today was by no means abundant' The demand was firm, and late prices were readily mode' Barley in better demand for fine sorts; other kinds ra ther slaw of sale. Oats slow at last week's prices. Beans dull' —White wheat, from 42s to 475; red wheat, 40s to 43E. Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 30s. (NIL' old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19a to 2.55. Beans sold at 3° to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. Flour, fine, 34s to 38s; seconds, 29s to 32s per sack. —FRIDAY. grain took place to-day, ova y dull. Flour Blow, with ° s. d. s. de Oatmeal „ 10 0 to 13 Beans.. . — 0 to -- 0 Bere . — 0 to Rapeseed .... —0 to g Bakers' flour .. 14 0 to 20 Indian corn .. 27 0 to 28 v DUBLIN• Very few transZtrons in . altogether the trade was vei downward tendency. e. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills. —The BAP Bulwark.—Nine-tenths of the maladies afflicting adel°,. depend upon a disordered state of the stomach Hollowq, Pills correct the first symptoms of indigestion by acting healthily on the gastric juice, and wholesomely exciting the liver. They dispel flatulency in incipient indigestio n ; and overcome heat, distention, and pain, attending men d advanced or neglected cases. These Pills invigorate 0, 13 soon restore the dyspeptic frem the great and sudden r 1 0; pression of strength always accompanying stomach disorder or biliary derangement. They beget cheerfulness, vige? r ; and happiness, Is rectifying disorders of the digeetict apparatus, these Pills prove themselves the prompr:i preventives of disease. Th e y rais e a bulwark against a approaching maladies and presery a freshness, health, 1111 life. Births. CRITTENDEN..—On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage, ICi r , td . lington, Oxon, the wife of th e R ev . Th os . K. Chittens'''' 8.D., of a son. HARVEY.—On the 17th inst., at Rathgar Cottage, SO O4 thaw, the wife of Chas. Harvey, Esq , of a daughter. Rowzorr.—On the 15th inst., at Gre enw i c h, Mrs. NV' v ‘ Rowton, of a son. TENNANT.—On the 17th inst., at Liscard-vale, Chesh ire ' the wife of James M. Tennant, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. BROAD , 3 ,7T—MiLicEs.—On the 17th inst., at South - lingham LL2urch, John Broadbent, Esq., to Catherill i , eldest daughtt,T of Robert Milnes, Esq., of South C ° lingham. MO BERRYMIN—Bnome—On the 16th inst., at Maryie„,. - . r y John Berryman, Esq., IT.D., of St. john, N.B. to lu' o f Anne, third daughter of George Sinclair Brodie, Esq Perabridge-square, London. Deaths. FORD.—On the 16th inst., at Blackheath, Mr. Edw ard Ford, aged 38. Of LOVERIDGE.—On the 18th inst., John Loveridge, North Bank, Regent's-park, aged 70. miller, MILLER.—On the 16th inst., at Overton, Thomas 'a . Esq , aged 86. Moßms,—On the 18th inst., at 79, Park•street, Grosvcrlcse square, Mr. James Morris, aged 77. MOWFINIER.—On the 18th inst., at Upper Tooting, Hugh Hamilton Mortimer, Esq., aged 87. &sir° PATTON.--On the 18th inst., at Cockspur-street , Hugh Patton, aged 73. TIIOROLD.—On the 18th inst., at Weelsby Hous e, - .NT°I43 Grimsby, Richard Thorold, Esq., aged 76 London : Prin.vd and Prbtished by WILLIAM AND°:, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE Sur; Office ' 3 ' . 4s . 01 Strand. al the Precinct of the 'savoy. .n the CO P ait4!eleX.-:-Metlday, Mardi 21. 'Mi.